Things only got worse for Thousand Oaks in the third quarter as Coleman scored another eight points and Calabasas increased the lead to an unbelievable 35 points with two minutes remaining in the third quarter.

“It was all about playing hard and getting out into transition and running,” Coleman said.

Thousand Oaks made a valiant comeback using a 21-3 run keyed by UC-Davis bound Alex Tiffin and James Whalen but it wasn’t nearly enough.

The Lancers (12-4, 3-1) finally started to get up with the games speed in the final ten minutes of the game using a suffocating press to make things respectable but the hole was so large they ran out of time.

Thousand Oaks scored 39 points in the final quarter after scoring 38 in the first 24 minutes.

Thousand Oaks shot themselves in the foot by going five of 17 at the free-throw line in the second and third quarters after having made all eight attempts in the first quarter.

Tiffin scored 23 points, Whalen had 21 and Evann Hall contributed 15.

Lenard Gorokhov had 13 points, including four 3-pointers and Langer had 12 points for Calabasas.

The Coyotes made eight 3-pointers and Thousand Oaks made seven with six coming in the second half.

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